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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Why don't more distributions have something like the AUR when it's the main reason why so many people use Arch Linux? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Things are getting better as snaps and flatpaks gain popularity, but both of those systems have lots of issues of their own, and arguably aren’t anywhere near as good as a proper native package for your distro. Flatpaks don’t really work for CLI tools. Snaps are stupidly slow. Both snaps and flatpaks still struggle with theming. Applications installed with either take up way more space than their natively-packaged equivalents.

Flatpaks would beat native packages if they didn't have a trillion papercuts and issues. I'm on NixOS because I want to avoid using flatpak.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm wondering why flatpaks don't work for command-line tools

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I dont have links in hand, but I remember the flatpak devs saying they targeted/care about desktop gui apps. It's one of the reasons why I won't use flatpaks anytime soon if ever